"If you believe very strongly in something, stand up and fight for it."
— Roy T. Bennett
"Thank goodness for the first snow, it was a reminder--no matter how old you became and how much you'd seen, things could still be new if you were will..."
— Candace Bushnell
"May you live all the days of your life."
— Jonathan Swift
"I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it."
— Nelson Mandela
"Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light."
— J. K. Rowling
"Never let hard lessons harden your heart; the hard lessons of life are meant to make you better, not bitter."
"Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time."
— Marthe Troly-Curtin
"In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning."
— Carl Sandburg
"These are the times that try men's souls."
— Thomas Paine
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
— Eleanor Roosevelt
"Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow."
— Helen Keller
"Be the kind of person who dares to face life's challenges and overcome them rather than dodging them."
"Every day, you get the opportunity to change your life."
— Rodolfo Costa
"I've always heard every ending is also a beginning. We just don't know it at the time. I'd like to believe that's true."
— Emily Prentiss
"Nobody really cares if you're miserable, so you might as well be happy, and make the most of where you are."
— Germany Kent
"Sometimes the smallest things take up the most room in your heart."
— A. A. Milne
"Life of man [in the state of nature] is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short."
— Thomas Hobbes
"Don't be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart."
"Even though gravity brings us down, we can still put our hands in the air."
— Aegelis
"Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create."